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Lecture 7: Recurrences

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MIT 6.1200J Mathematics for Computer Science, Spring 2024
Instructor: Zachary Abel

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Today we will see how to model computational problems, such as computing running time, by using recurrences, and we will see how to find closed-form solutions for many recurrences.

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